Catalytic reactor for the production of methanol, ammonia, synthesis gas and higher alcohols

US4734264A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Man Guttehoffnungshutte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Frohmut Vollhardt · Haiger, DE
• Hans Kramer · Dinslaken, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 1986
• Grant date: Mar 29, 1988
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A vertical reactor for catalytic exothermic and endothermic reactions, especially for the production of methanol, ammonia, synthesis gas and higher alcohols, with a jacket containing the catalyst bed and exchanger pipes which form a tube bundle running through the jacket parallel to its longitudinal axis, with a gas-permeable floor supporting the catalyst bed, as well as feed and discharge pipes for the cooling or heating medium running through the jacket lid and the jacket floor, said feed and discharge pipes, as well as feed and discharge pipes for the reaction gas, leading into horizontal distributing and collecting pipes wherein the upper and lower ends of the upright or essentially upright exchanger pipes of the tube bundle lead into horizontal supporting headers which are parallel to each other and arranged below and above the collecting and distributing pipes. The supporting headers are connected through intermediate ducts with the collecting or distributing pipes, which are arranged symmetrical to, or in the transverse center of, the support headers.